Course overview
Contemporary communication design is a social and political undertaking that operates at varying levels of public visibility. As such, theoretical and critical inquiry should be made of its processes and language, its motivations and modes of practice, its relationships with ideologies and technologies, and its intended and unintended effects on users and audiences. The course in Critical Design Issues builds upon learning from the previous course, Design Perspectives, and presents a theme-based over-view of key theories, debates and discourse in contemporary communication design, and poses philosophical and ethical questions that require students to reflect on their emerging skills, attitudes, identity and purpose as designers in a rapidly changing world.
Course learning outcomes
- Describe and evaluate contemporary communication design practices from a range of contexts, with reference to their social, cultural, ethical, and environmental roles and responsibilities
- Recognise and reflect on the philosophical positions of a selection of contemporary designers and apply understanding of those positions to arguments about contemporary design practice
- Critically reflect on the potential role of communication design in developing more socially equitable and ecologically sustainable objects, images and systems
- Identify and apply basic research methods to individual and collaborative outcomes in academic discourse across a choice of themes and formats and use appropriate methods of academic attribution
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus West
Class number 57904
Section SE01
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 53158
Section SE02
Size 25
Available 16
Class number 57283
Section SE03
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 57905
Section ST01
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 53824
Section ST02
Size 25
Available 16
Class number 53825
Section ST03
Size 25
Available 25
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